TY - GEN
T1 - An informed view on consent for ubicomp
AU - Luger, Ewa
AU - Rodden, Tom
PY - 2013/10/15
Y1 - 2013/10/15
N2 - Ubiquitous computing systems tend to be complex, seamless, data-driven and interactive. Reacting to both context, and users' implicit actions resulting from the lived experience, they cast all traces of human life as potential 'data'. To augment users' endeavours, such systems are necessarily embedded below the line of human attention, drawing upon new and highly sensitive types of data. This begs the question, where is the moment of user consent and how can this moment be truly informed? We would argue that it is time to revisit our design principles in respect of consent and redress the balance of agency towards the user. We draw upon a series of multidisciplinary interviews with experts to (a) reframe consent for ubicomp, and (b) offer three indicative principles, supportive of consent, for designers to 'balance' against system functionality. We hope that this will afford a new prism through which designers might make value judgements.
AB - Ubiquitous computing systems tend to be complex, seamless, data-driven and interactive. Reacting to both context, and users' implicit actions resulting from the lived experience, they cast all traces of human life as potential 'data'. To augment users' endeavours, such systems are necessarily embedded below the line of human attention, drawing upon new and highly sensitive types of data. This begs the question, where is the moment of user consent and how can this moment be truly informed? We would argue that it is time to revisit our design principles in respect of consent and redress the balance of agency towards the user. We draw upon a series of multidisciplinary interviews with experts to (a) reframe consent for ubicomp, and (b) offer three indicative principles, supportive of consent, for designers to 'balance' against system functionality. We hope that this will afford a new prism through which designers might make value judgements.
KW - Consent
KW - Design
KW - Privacy
KW - Ubicomp
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885227348&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2493432.2493446
DO - 10.1145/2493432.2493446
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885227348
SN - 9781450317702
T3 - UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
SP - 529
EP - 538
BT - UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
T2 - 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2013
Y2 - 8 September 2013 through 12 September 2013
ER -